MCX technical glitch: Trading in gold, silver begins after over four hours of delay; bourse initiates investigation

MCX technical glitch: The Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX), the largest commodity trading bourse in the country, faced technical glitch on Tuesday, 28 October 2025, leading to a delay of more than four hours in the commencement of trading.

The normal trading on MCX began at 1:25 PM instead of the usual time of 9:00 AM.

MCX said that all trading systems were now functioning normally. Due to a technical issue at the exchange, the commencement of trading on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, was delayed, it said, adding that the operations were shifted to the Disaster Recovery (DR) site, and trading started at 1.25 pm.

MCX also announced that it had initiated an investigation into the issue.

“An investigation into the issue has been initiated on priority. We are committed to identifying the cause and implementing necessary corrective measures. Updates on our findings and actions taken will be shared in due course,” MCX said in the release.

Initially, trading on MCX was scheduled to begin at 10:30 AM instead of the usual opening time of 9:00 AM. However, trading was delayed multiple times.

“Special session will start at 01:20 PM to 01:24 PM and normal trading at 01:25 PM,” a message on MCX website earlier said.

Update at 12:35 PM said, “The commencement of trading is delayed due to a technical issue. Trading will start from DR site. The time of commencement of trading will be informed to market participants. Inconvenience is regretted,” a message on MCX website said.

The bourse did not specify the cause or nature of the issue, but according to the statement, MCX began commodity trading from Disaster Recovery site.

MCX Timing

The normal trading session on MCX is from 9:00 AM to 11:30 PM, extending to 11:55 PM during daylight savings. Agro-commodities trading time on MCX is from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Is MCX Open Today?

Yes, MCX is open for trading today. However, due to the technical snag, trading was halted and normal MCX timing for trade was delayed. Commodity trading, including gold and silver, on MCX began at 1:25 PM.

MCX is India’s largest commodity derivatives exchange, accounting for about 98% of the market share in commodity futures trading by value. The bourse facilitates trading across a broad range of commodity contracts, including gold, silver, energy, base metals, and agricultural commodities.

The technical issue hit MCX a day after the bourse launched options contracts on the MCX iCOMDEX Bullion Index (MCX BULLDEX). The options contracts became effective today, October 27.

MCX BULLDEX constitutes the highly popular and liquid MCX Gold and Silver futures contracts.

MCX Technical Glitches

This is not the first time MCX has faced such an issue. Earlier this year, MCX faced a similar technical issue in July when the trading began at 10:15 AM, a delay of more than an hour.

On July 23, trading on MCX was initially expected to resume by 9:45 AM, but the exchange later revised the opening time to 10:10 AM, but trading did not resume as planned. It finally began trading from 10:15 AM after a delay caused by clearing technical processes and file sharing.

At 1:35 PM, MCX share price was trading 1.17% lower at ₹9,200.00 apiece on the BSE.